I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
We’re changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
If we’re isolated, we come to feel powerless when we’re not.
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don’t know what’s going to matter in the future.
I don’t think there’s any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Law and justice are not always the same.
Women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
I have me 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.
Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
If women could sleep their way to the top, there’d be a lot more women at the top.
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.
Helping begins with listening.
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.