What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

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.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.