How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

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.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.