Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to…

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In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the...

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the...

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life....

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life....

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all....

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all....

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically...

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically...

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.