it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

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.