I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!