"Ein Buch ist wie ein Garten, den man in der Tasche trägt."

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

In the act of writing, we confront our deepest fears and desires.

I'm not trying to be cool. I'm just being me.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

自由的代价是永恒的警惕。

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men's hands, since that wouldn't change anything about the world. It's a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.