It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would not be made of men. There are going to be attacks based on different standards of morality and different standards of dress and physical attractiveness.