If we had no language we'd have nothing.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now other generations are wallowing in, the extremes they go to, to look sexually attractive? It's stunning how things that one fought desperately for are just being tossed aside with aplomb.

Love is divine only and difficult always.