Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.