All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

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.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.