Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

The soul is awakened through service.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

I knew I was in England by the smell.