I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.