I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.
Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.
I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.
It is passivity that dulls feeling.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.