Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.

The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.

It is not your job to convince men to like you.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

The battle is not with the human flesh, but the mind.

All the sorrows of life are bearable if only we can convert them into a story.

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.

Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you. ~Shade

Realism is a corruption of reality.