So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

I believe that art has incredible power.