“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”

“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.”

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry”

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud”

“However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism muststart with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether thatright is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. Howeverfar it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal powerand airtight roles within the family.”

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”