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

A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

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.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.