I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy.

If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.