Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.

Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.

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.

I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

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

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.