Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

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.

[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.