We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

expectation isn't the same as desire

She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.