Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.