[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.

And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.