When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

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.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.