It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women's movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.