In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

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.

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

We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.

In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.