People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.