I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.