If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.