How can I survive without a book to read?

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

The only man I’ve ever been attracted to, and he comes with a bloody contract, a flogger, and a whole world of issues.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

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.

I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

I guess the anthropomorphising is something I've done all my life.