You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

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

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.