It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.