... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.