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.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.