"We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever."

“Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.”

“I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.”

“A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.”

“The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.”

Source : "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.

“I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.”

“I am in fact more than a dress.”

Source : "Ed Miliband faces 'vicious' election attacks, says wife" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2015.

“People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.”