In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

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