Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.