What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is..

Women are a colonized people..

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the lat….

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at..

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand..

We are the women men warned us about..

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I t….

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love..

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange..

Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolut….

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form..

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with whic….

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise..

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of ….

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical ….

There's something contagious about demanding freedom..

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people st….

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human..

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self..

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious..

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppress….