“I would like, just once, for a woman to see me as other than a person with a coronet. Simply as a man, no different than other men.”

“Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman.”

“Once we stop looking at each other as colors and simply as men and women we can begin to look at our similarities that makes us all human rather than looking at our differences to separate us further. You do not see different species of birds attacking each other cause one is a sparrow and the other is a pigeon.”

“Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences, usually seeing how I was better than others.”

“An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.”

“To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy.”