There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

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

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

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.