It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.

It is poetry that changes everything.

Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.