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

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.