I just hugged the man that murdered my son.
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.
Feminism has fought no wars. . . killed no opponents. . . set up no concentration camps. . . starved no enemies. . . practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets. . . for reforms in the law.
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.
God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film
If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.