Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.