Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

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

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.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.