Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

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.