Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.

When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

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

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