Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.
Eleanor CattonThe way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.
Eleanor CattonI vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
Eleanor CattonI have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," she says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.
Eleanor Catton