We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.