My best Valentine's Day was when someone gave me a teddy bear. It was a really, really big bear!
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.
I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.