Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.