But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

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.

Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.