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

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

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.

They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.