The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

My mom made me go to a Britney Spears concert when I was young. And I was like, 'No, I don't want to!' she was like, 'You're going to be a performer, you need to see other people.'

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.

Miracle me no miracles.

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.