We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.