Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.