Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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.