Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.

Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.

I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.