Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.

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

Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.

If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.