Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.