I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched out before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints?

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

Nobody gets any guarantees.

Being alone at night is scary sometimes.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.