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

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

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.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.