Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

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

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

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

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.

Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?