I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.
Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning
Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
Most women are one man away from welfare.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.
We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment an...
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.
Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.