When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.

My job is my own only land.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.