Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.

If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this.

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.