Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

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.

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.