Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.