One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

Law and justice are not always the same.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.

I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.