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.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.