The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.