Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.