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.

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.