“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”

“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.”

“For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.”

“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”

“I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.”

“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.”

“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.”