Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

[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.

Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

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