I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

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

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.