If You Empower Women, You Can Change

Even In The First World, Expectations Are Not As High For Women As They Are For Men. We Get That Message Subtly, But In The Third World, It Isn't Subtle. Girls Are Isolated And Encouraged Not To Talk To One Another.

Through Clinton And Monica, Clinton And Hillary, The Scandal, The Impeachment, Iraq, Bruce And Demi, Ellen And Anne, I Have Remained Consistently And Nauseatingly Adorable. I Have, In Fact, Been Known To Cause Diabetes.

And The Insidious Thing Is That People Will Either See A Movie Because It Did Well Last Weekend Or Won't See It Because It Didn't Do Well.

Once Women Find A Way To Form Community, Everyone Reaps The Rewards.

All Of [motherhood] Surprised Me. It Surprised Me From The Very First Second I Saw Jack. I'd Believed That My Pregnancy Was A Condition. It Never Computed. And There He Was. Everyone Made Fun Of Me Because I Stared At Him For Months And Months, Not Being Able To Believe He Was Real.