Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn't as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.

There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.

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