Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

All men are rapists and that's all they are

In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.