It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth. "
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch. ” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
. . . one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.