Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

Men generally do not see women as competition.

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

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 because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.