Once we call it by name, we can start having a real conversation about our priorities and values. Because the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutali...
For a while it was forever, and then things started to fall apart. There isn't a story to tell, because a relationship is a story you construct together and take up residence in, a story as sheltering...
A Presbyterian pastor who had performed a number of such marriages told me, I remember coming to this realization when I was meeting with same-sex couples before performing their ceremonies when it wa...
A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.
Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?'Carl Anthony quoted by Rebecca Solnit
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. Perfectionists can find fault with anything, and no one has higher standards in this regard than leftists.
Yes, people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, ge...
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.
A year ago, I was at a dinner in Amsterdam when the question came up of whether each of us loved his or her country. The German shuddered, the Dutch were equivocal, the Brit said he was comfortable wi...
Making a poem is like making a chair; a poem is as real as a chair and sometimes more useful.
Alas, many of these long-distance writers are not fascinating thinkers, and it’s a dubious premise that someone who would be dull to walk round the corner with must be fascinating for a six-month trek...
Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is a confident memory of the future,
Still, even now, when a woman says something uncomfortable about male misconduct, she is routinely portrayed as delusional, a malicious conspirator, a pathological liar, a whiner who doesn't recognize...
People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
Think of how much more time and energy we would have to focus on other things that matter if we weren’t so busy surviving.
Congressional Republicans refused to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act because they objected to the protection it gave immigrants, transgender women, and Native American women. (Speaking of e...
Creation is always in the dark because you can only do the work of making by not quite knowing what you’re doing, by walking into darkness, not staying in the light.
We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.
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