I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

We have to know before we can act.

I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.