I Used To Tell Women Graduate Students,

Pleasure Is A Sensation. It Is Written Into Our Bodies; It Is Our Experience Of Delight, Of Joy. ... Pleasure Will Become A Marker, A Compass Pointing To Emotional True North.

It All Goes Back, Of Course, To Adam And Eve - A Story Which Shows Among Other Things, That If You Make A Woman Out Of A Man, You Are Bound To Get Into Trouble.

While Men Represent Powerful Activity As Assertion And Aggression, Women In Contrast Portray Acts Of Nurturance As Acts Of Strength.

Maybe Love Is Like Rain. Sometimes Gentle, Sometimes Torrential, Flooding, Eroding, Joyful, Steady, Filling The Earth, Collecting In Underground Springs. When It Rains, When We Love, Life Grows.

Both Love And Democracy Depend On Voice -- Having A Voice And Also The Resonance That Makes It Possible To Speak And Be Heard.