“Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”

“What is this thing called the existence? Is it all the things that we perceive it to be? Or is it something else? It's a gift. One of my favorite examples is the bird in the cage. You may think that you own the bird inside the cage, but you're wrong. You only own the cage. People think that they need to have a very fancy cage, that the more incredible the cage, the more incredible the bird will look. But the cage and the bird are really two different things. When the bird is gone, all that will be left is the cage.”

“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”

“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.”

“Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!”

“We are most artistically caged.”

“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”

“Compassion existed when and only when one could step outside oneself, to suddenly see the bars from inside the cage.”

“I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves…”

“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)”