Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.