I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead'. Academics are forced to write in language no one can und… - Gloria Steinem

Anyone who believes we’re living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females — from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking — has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.

I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176