You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

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

The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.