Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

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

What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.