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.

I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

A wet dream in the mind of New York.