If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.
Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors – anything.
Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.
There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a ‘spinster of arts’ degree they would see how important this is.
If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick’s Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.
Sadomasochiasm – which we know very well doesn’t exist in societies that don’t have child abuse – is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.
Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence – and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
Whoever has power takes over the noun – and the norm – while the less powerful get an adjective.
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn’t create the crime.
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable – division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states – actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.
Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.