Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

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

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.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.