The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

Like species, couples die out or evolve.

It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.

Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.