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.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.