Male silence is not the same as listening

... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

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

I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.