My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.