“ Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space. ”

“If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.”

“It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing.”

“In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.”

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”

“It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.”