If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.