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

The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

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