Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

We are the women men warned us about.

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?