Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.'
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
