We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.

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.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

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!

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.