Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.