There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.