If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.