The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.

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

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.