There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.
All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.
She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.
there's no justice, there's only love.
loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.