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

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

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.

You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.