I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

Poetry is fired by love.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.