Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act is political: the things you do, as well as the things you omit doing; the things you refuse to do; the things you fail to do; the things you say, as well as the things you don't say.