The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.
Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.
I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight. . . There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true. ' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there.
A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.