I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.