I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

I look at Thich Nhat Hanh and I look at Marshall Rosenberg, and they're more concerned about the long range. And that long range means that you have to sit down with people who don't think like you. I want to reach people who don't think like me.

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.