The surest way to be alone is to get married.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud