What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

Without community, there is no liberation.