Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.

We need people to be alert and thinking for themselves and connected to each other and connected to that sense of hope and empowerment and radical chutzpah that the founding generation had and intended us to have.

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of "overpermiticisation" - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

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.

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

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.