Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

Behave like everything you do matters.

it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.