Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Hags live. Women traveling into feminist timespace are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan
You become courageous by doing courageous acts. . . Courage is a habit.
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be. ’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.
I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.
If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.
There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.