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.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

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

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

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.

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

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.