The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

From the time I was little, I'd been kind of freaked out by the whole deal with large groups of people. And even moderate - sized groups of people. It's always made me very uncomfortable. It's such a strange phenomenon, what happens to people when they're all moving in the same direction, all chanting the same tune, the same line of slogans or something. That stuff always seems very alien and bizarre to me, and kind of scary.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.