My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance to our government, our culture and our ways of thinking and structuring the world. I think we've had a very "masculine" sensibility for a long time, and I think we need to go back to the roots of social imbalance. I think we have to try to right that first, and from there and all these more pressing issues will follow.

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.