For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

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

Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.