We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

Behave like everything you do matters.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).