There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings and as creative beings, and there's not that void for men. Women don't stop being all those things as their lives continue into those decades.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.

Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.

If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.