“People need to be encouraged, not stepped on and put in a straitjacket!”

“I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.”

“Shedding off one more layer of skinKeeping one step ahead of the persecutor within”

“20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift.”

“aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets”

“If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.”

“It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.”