Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.

[On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.

Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves

Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.

Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.