It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.