Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.