If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.