No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.