The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

He gave a nod. "My future lies in your hands." "Not your future, Gerard, but the path leading to it, " she suggested

It's been my experience that those people who seem the most 'normal' are in fact the most dangerous.

When people have been oppressed for so long

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

I try to put myself in the shoes of people in the news. I'm in the news myself quite a lot. But there's many days I give thanks I'm not in the news and the news that's out there.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.