All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.