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.
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
Don’t worry about your background, whether it’s odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.
An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.