“The public image of an abortionist was of an evil, leering, drunken, perverted butcher at worst, and a cold, mysterious, money-hungry Park Avenue price-gouger at best. And then there was Dr. Spencer with his clinic on the main street of a small American town, who believed in abortions, and who was kind”

"On a freezing Friday night I visit Kings County Hospital. Depression hits as soon as I walk through the front doors"

Home health aides are challenging state regulations that only allow them to be paid for thirteen hours of each 24-hour shift — and say Cuomo is dragging his feet on a fix

‘I have chosen to fight, to raise a big and hideous and ungovernable howl for the girl I was and the girls who have yet to be’

‘Musk’s gesture to help Flint suits his flair for showmanship; it typifies his attitude toward public action’

‘A country without legal abortion is not a country without abortion. It’s just a country in which more women die.’

The Fourth of July protests against ICE and separating immigrant families are part of a long tradition of Statue of Liberty action, including one in 1991 for abortion rights

‘I thought throwing myself into work would make me feel better, but work didn’t want to cooperate. So I decided to eat my feelings instead.’

‘Panic has its own logic separate from earth-logic; it’s not fear, but another plane, an Upside Down of the mind’

‘I don’t know where the urge to kill oneself comes from, if some of us have it and some of us don’t’