Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.