Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.