Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.