Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.

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.

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

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 never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.