I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy.

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

Men generally do not see women as competition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.