You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

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.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.