I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.