The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.

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.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.