Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

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

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

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

I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

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