As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Everyone has a home but me.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me

To think too much is a disease.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.

In America, you will see in area after area, media under pressure, businesses under pressure not to criticize Donald Trump lest he reduce their stock value with an angry tweet.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.