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

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn't as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.