- If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence. To be a feminist is to be alive.
- [on her June 2003 marriage to artist/writer Al Ridenour]: "It's not a traditional situation. It's not a committed marriage. We're just friends who share space. My parents don't understand it. They just send us Yahoo E-cards wishing us well."
- It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change. Yet they are arbitrarily silenced, as if forfeiting their right to vote punishes them. In truth, it punishes the rest of us because it turns the right into a privilege. Whenever privilege is introduced, there are problems. We cannot afford any more problems.
- Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.
- [on members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church] I always feel bad when I see them 'cos it's all children. They make all their kids do everything. It's not right. These kids are out late at night holding up signs. It's a very sad, strange phenomenon.
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