Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.