And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.