In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman, but a woman who stands for the majority needs of women. It's not just getting a job for one woman, it's making life better for all women.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.