Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.