Make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not gr… - Terence McKenna

Feminism is a tremendously underestimated force, viewed in the present context primarily as a woman's concern. The understanding has not yet percolated throughout society that the advancement of women is a program vitally connected to the survival of human beings as a species. The reason for this is simply that institutions take on the character of the atoms which compose them, and what we are most menaced by in the twentieth century are dehumanized institutions. If women played a major role in policy formation and execution on the part of these institutions, I think they would have a far more benign and ecologically sensitive kind of character. So I see feminism not as a kind of war between the sexes or any of these stereotypic images, but as actually a kind of effort to shift the ratios of our emphasis that is expressed through our institutions.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.