“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

“The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.”

“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Dominant groups often go unchallenged in society, and their power and privilege goes unexamined.”

“If it would destroy a 12-year-old boy to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?”

“And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.