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

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.

Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.

If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when women control the means of production and reproduction. From this point of view, it is simply not in women's interest to support patriarchy or even a fabled "equality" with men. That women do so is more a sign of powerlessness than of any biologically based "superior" wisdom.

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

[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.

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