We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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.
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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.