I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.