Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth. "
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch. ” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.
I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.
For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.