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

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.

...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?

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

If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing.

No one can fulfill the calling to extend the reign of love alone

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

When you blame others you give up your power to change.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

Why is it, when I have nothing to do, I drink more coffee? It's as if I'm in a big hurry to get nothing done.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.