The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.