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

• The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
• Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
• We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
• Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
• 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.
• If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
• 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.
• Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.