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.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

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).

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

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