Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated, advocacy programs were quashed, the Savings and Loan program was trashed, the deficit was tripled, unions were busted, Housing and Urban Developing was in shambles, banks were closing, the military got lots of new toys, the religious right was strong, and AIDS was ignored.

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.