The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

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