Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.

The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.

Words are spiritual. Think, speak and affirm positive words.

Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.

dreamers dream

I'm a million different things every day of the week.

Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

We are all special cases.

Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .