I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

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.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.