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Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.