There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.