If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

I believe that art has incredible power.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.