 I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves. |
| A story is told as much by silence as by speech. |
| Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. |
| I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. |
| Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere. |
| 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 culture's image of what is female. |
| What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. |
| In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. |
