Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Everyone has a home but me.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

He who limps is still walking.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else.