reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
Power is the ability not to have to please.
those who despair of life are not long for it.
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.