I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.
There is no issue that is not a women's issue.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of powerdomination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dreamplanactrisk on a larger scale.
I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.
I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.
Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.
I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"
You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.