Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

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

He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

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.