[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

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.

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.

There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.