Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.