At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

I have always employed humor, and I think it’s absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually, if somebody is isolated and dependent — it’s like the Stockholm syndrome. But you can’t compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly. It happens when you learn something, too.

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.