"The most radical play I had ever written turned out to be the play that was accepted and invited into the mainstream."
Introduction, p. xii

"The art has made the activism more creative and bold, the activism has made the art more sharply focused, more grounded, more dangerous."
Ibid, p. xii (2)

"[T]here are two things on every college campus, a Starbucks and a V-Day."
Ibid, p. xiv

"We have not penetrated the mindset that, somewhere in every single culture, gives permission to violence, expects violence, waits for violence, and instigates violence. We have not stopped teaching boys to deny being afraid, doubtful, needy, sorrowful, vulnerable, open, tender, and compassionate."
Ibid, p. xix

"We have not cracked the tectonic plate at the center of the human psyche that is more terrified to love than to kill."
Ibid, p. xx

"It would be years before I learned that females...