“I like to play with perceptions and stretch the bounds of believability.”

“Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood.”

“Because you believed in me, I figured I was honor-bound to believe in myself.”

“Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.”

“Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...”

“Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.”