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

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.

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.

Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.

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

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