I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.