Your choice is a mighty weapon

Alex chuckled and whispered in her ear. “I’m feeling huge . . . I mean I have this huge desire . . . Crap, you feel good tonight. And you smell so good.

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, 'You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there