What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.