Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.

I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

Every action has an impact

Time brings all things to pass.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.

Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

I'm a bisexual; I get it maybe twice a year.