I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring a pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. . . autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
In 1989, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.
I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.
Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.