The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the of the anti-abortion forces, what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over womanhood, and do so by denying their own rights and responsibilities.
-- Ursula LeGuin

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyound measure.
-- Nelson Mandela

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book ahould be a ball of light in one's hand.
-- Ezra Pound