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

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word out there to make it a good word in a big way by putting it in big letters on the stage, and especially because she was quoting the African novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who said, "We should all be feminists." She's a very accomplished and important novelist.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.