“Asking men to cut away their feminine traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their masculine traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us h...”

“On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories like this that help us empathize with monstrous men. Yes, these men...”

“I can think of only two movies with women killers were meant to sympathize with, and both because theyd been sexually assaultedThelma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I dont imagine anyone...”

“I was limited by stories that came before mine.We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the stories that came before, by the heroes who came before. How is it we can bear to l...”

“Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives”

“We can pretend all we like that women are equal, ut as long as men and women are continually encouraged to supress the broad aspects of their humanity that we decry as "feminine", we're all screwed...”

“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.”

“Memories of lost love they do enpain,Fleeting images of what once was never again to gain.Hold tight those memories that slip through the mind, To walk in those fields again with hera dream divi...”

“As she left the cold arena Angel had to laugh,Beaten by that of a wisp girl and her subliming cunning craft.Jove lay silent in his orbit; brooding, deep, dreamless forweep,And faithful dog Sirius r...”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”