If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on my way to Starbucks and I'm feeling good. I also live for those aha! moments when you understand something new, when you see two things fitting together to make a surprising third. There's actually a chemical that's produced in the brain by learning that gives you that little ecstatic moment of, Oh, that's why.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night