We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

The Internet is an almost miraculous way of getting information, of finding and organizing with each other, both minutely and globally. A million times better than the phone and the mimeograph! Also much better than TV, which is one-way and passive.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

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

Women get hit with a double whammy. If they're attractive, they're presumed to have slept their way to the top. If they're unattractive, they are presumed to have chosen a profession because they could not get a man.