The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet and then admit that that wasn't the case, that they really felt like they were sort of growing into themselves in a way.