We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.

I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.