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.

How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.

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.

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

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

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