Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

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

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.