I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.