What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

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.

Women are a colonized people.

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

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

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.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.