Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Tobin Hart calls play “the holy work of children” that helps them “find and define themselves.”[2]

We need to respect choices that women make.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.