I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

We teach what we need to learn.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.