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

I can't mate in captivity.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.