"Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it."

"Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal inside it."

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open."

"I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be 'unfeminin…"

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up."