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.

One can find traces of every life in each life.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

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

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.