Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.