It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn't as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.