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.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

Liberation does not come from outside.