Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.

I hate when people say, "Have fun at the press preview." Fun is talking to you.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.