Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

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.

No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women are, and until women are as active outside the home as men are, we won't have democratic families, and therefore we won't have democracy, and we will continue this hierarchical notion of life.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.