If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.