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.

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.

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.

Know what you are talking about.

Like soil, the quality of your mind decides the quality and quantity of ideas your mind can produce.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.

I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then crooked, round-about, godforsaken paths stretch out before me.

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.