learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

You're a unique person. You should do what you're suited to do. We all should. It's the only way to be happy. That pressure is all outside. It's external.

What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

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

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.