learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

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