No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!