It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how you end up dying.

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

I’ve sometimes thought that it’s only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.