We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

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

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.