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

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.

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.

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.