I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.

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

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.