It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.