“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.”

“There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.”

“The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.”

“Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.”

“I wonder, I thought, what I am really thinking. Last week I would have known definitely but now everything seemed vague and evasive.”

“A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon!”

“A girl can't feel like a lady with a bottle of beer before her.”