"We've been socialized to believe that we're not worthy of love unless we're performing, producing, and pleasing."

"Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up."

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"I finally had an aha about it which is that we are mostly uh women as well as men raised by women when we're children. and we come to think that female Authority is only appropriate to Childhood. so I…"

"The surest way to lose yourself is to try to please everyone."