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

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself — or will use military violence against another country — is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.

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