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

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

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.

Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.

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

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.