I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.