I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel and terrible and some of them are mothers. But why do we blame our mothers more than our fathers? We let our fathers get away scot-free. We hardly even knew who they were in many cases, given the way this culture raises kids, and they may have been quite cruel. They may even have raped us as children, but even if they raped us, we will blame our mothers for not protecting us instead of blaming our fathers who actually did it.

I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.