We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.