The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.

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.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.