The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

Assaults against women and children are assaults against any potential positive future for the world.

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.

That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.

They are afraid to read out loud, fearful of being thought stupid or foolish or — what? I ask them. Girlish? Boring, says one Megan. (Which Megan? I can’t remember.) This is a terrible fear, I know — this fear of not being interesting — of being trivial, not special. It is almost as great, I think, as their fear of standing out and being special.