Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.