If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking b...
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses...
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.