Women are a colonized people.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

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

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.

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

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.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.