Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the strength of understanding, which, if transformed into wisdom, always means the performance of necessary actions.

Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

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

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

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.

Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as you see fit. It's amazing that I feel the need to say this, but, given our times, I do.