... 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.

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

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.