I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.

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

Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

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