“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”

“Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night”

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”

“However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism muststart with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether thatright is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. Howeverfar it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal powerand airtight roles within the family.”

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.”

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry”