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

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

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

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.