a very strong endorsement… of the basic objectives established (by the 19-nation NATO alliance) … to stop the repression in Kosovo.

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For...

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

Being in a state of denial is auniversally human response tosituations which threaten tooverwhelm. People who were abusedas children sometimes carry theirdenial like precious cargo without aport of destination. It enabled us tosurvive our childhood...

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence and has only recently relaxed its hold somewhat, allowing us to question it...