I'm not a nice person.

The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.