I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.