Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.