There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

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.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

... 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.

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

That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.