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

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

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

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

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

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

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.