I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.