We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.