Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.