raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

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.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

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.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.