The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

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

Writing is always harder than talking.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.