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

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

...you look at me like an emergency

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.