Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.