Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.