If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.