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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

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

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

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.