Voting isn’t the most we can do. But it is the least.
Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified ‘math anxiety,’ for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn’t yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
It’s never to late for a happy childhood.
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don’t care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
It’s not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There’s opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
Feminism isn’t called the longest revolution for nothing.
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they’re ashamed of.
Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.
This is what forty looks like. We’ve been lying so long, who would know?
You’re afraid to be close to women. Because it’s not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.
I don’t know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.
During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it’s still there.
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.