For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.