I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.