To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

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

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.

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.