Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.