When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.