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

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.