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

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.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.