Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.

Whatever you want to do,do it now.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.