If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

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

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!