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.

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on my way to Starbucks and I'm feeling good. I also live for those aha! moments when you understand something new, when you see two things fitting together to make a surprising third. There's actually a chemical that's produced in the brain by learning that gives you that little ecstatic moment of, Oh, that's why.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.