A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.