People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.

The gospel beckons our sin-sick souls to simple trust in Christ, the only One who is truly radical enough.

...smile first, then speak.

Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.