Your life belongs to you and you alone.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.