Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

You're a unique person. You should do what you're suited to do. We all should. It's the only way to be happy. That pressure is all outside. It's external.