"If you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes."

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will …"

"Democracy begins with owning our bodies. By that measure, women have rarely lived in a democracy."

"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."

"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."