For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

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

I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.