What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.