"Experience is everything. Somebody who has experienced something is more expert at it than the experts."

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

"Now we know that, say, women can do what men can do—most folks would agree with that. But we don't know that men could do what women can do."

"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."

"When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses."