"Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence: to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context." ~Marilyn Feruson

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." ~ Gloria Anzaldua

"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression." ~ Toni Morrison

"When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. If they take it inside with them, they do something else, because society is in the room with them." ~Andrea Dworkin

"I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes." ~ Maxine Hong Kingston