Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
-–Salman Rushdie
Succulence does not always mean wild abandon or juicy freedom - Sometimes it is a quiet unfolding, a peeling back to reveal a tender center.
-–SARK
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
-–Dante
I will choose what enters me,
what becomes flesh of my flesh
Without choice, no politics,
no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield,
not your uranium mine, not your calf
for fattening, not your cow for milking.
You may not use me as your factory.
Priests and legislators do not hold shares
in my womb or my mind.
This is my body. If I give it to you
I want it back. My life
is a non-negotiable demand.
-–Marge Piercy