Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.

...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone.

Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.

The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.

At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.

Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?

Cleave to the common good. We are all responsible for bringing about the time of great suffering, for its continuing.

Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.

You might be a redneck if you have every episode of Hee Haw on tape.

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent

I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.