Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.