Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Liberation does not come from outside.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.