Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.