The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.

At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster

Only an honorable victory is a true victory.

No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light