The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.