A language is a map of our failures

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.