I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.

I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed

Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.

Garner knowledge, by any means possible

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.