Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me. "
Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth. "
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch. ” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
I live and die with the Chicago Cubs
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.