Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. - Rebecca Solnit

You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.

Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. (p7)