During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.