every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

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

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

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

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.