imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.