If you really want to be lonely, get married.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

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

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.