When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

To do something very common, in my own way.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.