Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well.

Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.