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

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.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

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

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

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