A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.