The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

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

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!