"anger is constantly the fuel that feeds the work that I do, keeps me thinking of myself as an activist, and keeps me …"

"Being bitter does not help me. Being bitter just gives me frown lines"

"Gentrification has put a new face on the neighborhood; upper-middle-class lesbians and gay men now cruise the streets…"

"One of the elements in visionary force for me is anger-anger at injustice, not just anger that you specifically did n…"

"It's important to support small presses and feminist presses, and now the gay presses that have really begun to bloss…"

"Another element I feel contributes to seeing ourselves as a visionary force is our capacity for joy...We must continu…"

"a lot of people want to be just artists, not politicians-just want to write. But I will say this quite frankly: wheth…"

"our society is not monochromatic. There is nothing in this society, there is no book on any bestseller list, there is…"

"when we forget that the media lies, we forget ourselves, we forget the realities that we know. Our presses, the femin…"

"if they can start defining us, why shouldn't we define ourselves? It is a feminist vision that helped bring us here t…"