I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.