Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.

Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.