If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.