The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. - Ursula K. Le Guin

It is the nature of the idea to be communicated, written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass it craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows stronger from being stepped on.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.