In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

Today, do what you talked about doing yesterday.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

We are born male. We must learn to be men.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.