... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

The political is personal.

Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.