I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

If it isn't one blessing, it's another!

Pent-up anger is oftentimes more destructive than a good quarrel.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.

I wanted to be my own heroine.

You want to attach emotionally.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.