Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups