I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.