Women are a colonized people.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

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

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.