I don’t have time to explain that the women’s movement named domestic violence in the first place, sought its prosecution by police and by new laws, created the first shelters, and has been working for thirty years to explain, for instance, that the moment of leaving is the time when a woman is most likely to be murdered, thus answering questions like “Why doesn’t she just leave?
I don’t think feminism can just be imitative or integrationist. By definition, it must transform. But in the short run, there are goals we agree on. And it’s in the short run that we must act.
I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.
To be just, a law has to be flexible.
Learning to accept and even love difference, as she pointed out, is important for the future of the human race. There is great comfort in realizing that differences within a family have an important purpose.
So I sat down and began to make notes about many trips, past and present, that left me amazed by what is, angered by what isn’t, and hooked on what could be.
To write is to bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. What could be a better path to self-value than that?
The voting booth is the one place on Earth where the least powerful and the most powerful are equal.
Don’t make a story go stale by telling it to all your friends before your write it.
Marriage was always the happening end, not the beginning.
I always thought of my road life as temporary, assuming that one day I would grow up and settle down. Now I realized that for me, the road was permanent, and settling down was temporary. Traveling had created my nonroad life, not the other way around.
The truth was that I had internalized society’s unserious estimate of all that was female – including myself.
Whether we work to live, as most of us do, or live to work, as some of us are lucky enough to do, work doesn’t have to be a four-letter word. It can and should be a source of belonging, growth, and pleasure.
He took comfort in not knowing about the future.
I confused growing up with settling down.
This is all the more important today when we have world leaders who don’t respect differences. That lack of respect is a dictatorship.
There are events that divide our life into before and after.
God may be in the details, but the Goddess is in the connections.
We’re not having a revolution, but an evolution.
Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.