I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

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

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free.