I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

It is natural to want to have a future.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men