I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?