The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

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

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

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.

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.