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.

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.

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 reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

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

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.