Everyone is unique and each experience is different.

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Some women and men seem to need each other.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.