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.

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

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would not be made of men. There are going to be attacks based on different standards of morality and different standards of dress and physical attractiveness.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.