Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.