The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives

I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.