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Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.