We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.
My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal.
Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue. But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.
There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.
Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.