witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.

I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.