Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.
Behave like everything you do matters.
Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.
We’ll only really know we’ve succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn’t have to be extraordinary. That’s the point!
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
Oppression has no logic – just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
The phenomenon of the woman who’s asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, “I don’t know. What do you want to see?” It’s a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, “This is what I want.”
Karla Jay’s intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.
I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.
All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don’t want to be anyone’s mirror.
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
Male silence is not the same as listening.
It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
She is a water bug on the surface of life.
Writers – we’re a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.