More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.

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

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.