We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

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

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.