[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.