Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

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

We are the women men warned us about.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.