I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

Our greatest heritage is intangible.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.