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

To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

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

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.