I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

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

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.