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.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.