Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.

...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone.

The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.

At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.

Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

Continual prayer is a lifestyle."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Cause I lit him on fire, ” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.

I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.