When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.