No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

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

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.