A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.
I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.
There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.
I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.
when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.
the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
