The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, sexism can be reversed. It's the understanding that it's not inevitable. I think that is crucial.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

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