Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

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.

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.

The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

... 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.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.