Mark Cramer:  

also tells us that male homosexual acts are punishable by death by decree of that same God?" - Rebecca Alpert, "Like Bread on the Seder Plate" "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating." -Ranier Maria Rilke "Letters to a Young Poet"".