Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.