I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than of what a feminist would look like. They assumed that if you could get a man, you wouldn't want anything else - what else could you possibly want? So that feminists who were talking about such things as equal pay must be doing so because they were unable to get a husband to support them, and therefore they must be ugl - this was the sort of train of thought. So because I looked different from the stereotype, then people would comment.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.