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 for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.

The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

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

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.