The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit.

no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.

Gratitude is a blessed act.

All Deserve Success

Everything you experience mirrors a part of you.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die, red fades, and you may need a kiss—some day.