If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.