Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.