To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

My mother whom I love dearly has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce step-children dysfunction and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

After Nixon resigned in 1974 he engaged in a very aggressive war with history attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily history won largely because of Nixon's tapes.

In the history of the treatment of depression there was the dunking stool purging of the bowels of black bile hoses attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America I am outraged.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health which never happened.

Because we spoke so loudly opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.