Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

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.

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.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

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.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.