Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

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.