... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

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

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls attractive, then people say that you got ahead because of your looks-especially if you're a woman. If you're whatever society says is not attractive, then they say you got ahead because you're compensating, you couldn't get a man or whatever. So everybody pays the same penalty for the fact that women are assessed for their outsides rather than for what's in our heads and our hearts.