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

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

One can find traces of every life in each life.

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.