“New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.”

“Denial and affirmation are games which people play.There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.”

“Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions, their aim was not to deny the reality of God but to safeguard God's transcendence.”

“But everything changes. To deny change is to deny life. And the present moment contains miracles. Including an ability to see and receive the new.”

“[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.”

“Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.”