For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, can’t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates — or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.