I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
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Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'
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In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
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Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
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The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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