It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.