I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.