Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger – and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn’t usually mean including women.
You didn’t leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.
Even migrating birds know that nature doesn’t demand a choice between nesting and flight.
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.
In truth, we don’t know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.
When someone asks me if I believe in God and I say no – I believe in people – I.
Laughter is an orgasm of the mind.
The first step toward speaking for others is speaking for ourselves.
How long before both women and men are allowed to see self-respecting rebellion as a lifelong possibility?
Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.
Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.
There is no such thing as a perfect leader. We have to learn to lead ourselves.
I was the only “girl writer,” probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, “Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.
Or perhaps it’s “activist,” but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that pressuring women to have too many children is the biggest cause of environmental distress, and economic courses should start with reproduction, not just production.
As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.
Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.
The simple right to reproductive freedom – to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction – is basic to restoring women’s power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.
Unlike the Jester and the Clown, who are at the bottom of a hierarchical pile and survive only by making the king laugh, the Trickster is free, a paradox, a breaker of boundaries who makes us laugh – and laughter lets the sacred in. In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we’ve laughed.
Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one’s self.
I was traveling and making the discovery that ordinary people are smart, smart people are ordinary, decisions are best made by the people affected by them, and human beings have an almost infinite capacity for adapting to the expectations around us- which is both the good and the bad news.