For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible, and there were still laws on the books that made it alright for men to beat their wives, as long as it was within certain limits, and women were chattel.

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.