The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

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...

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

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here’s an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational...

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human...

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

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night

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 . . . She will...

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in “Revolution,” the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a...

Men should think twice before making widowhood women’s only path to power.

Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and...

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No...

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.