Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

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

Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.