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.

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.

It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money.

For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction.

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

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