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

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.

Life is a magical melody.

Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.

For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.

Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

All science requires mathematics.