The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

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).