When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

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.

“Healthy" and “diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these journals, these memoirs - "Surely our leaders will stop this nonsense. Surely someone will take on these thugs. Surely the pendulum will swing back." Everyone was sitting at home going, "Well, they haven't come for me. This is crazy, but surely someone's going to take care of it." We all have to take care of it.