“I am a mass of contradictions.”
“Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
“Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.”
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
“I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.”
“The mass depiction of the modern woman as a "beauty" is a contradiction: Where modern women are growing, moving, and expressing their individuality, as the myth has it, "beauty" is by definition inert, timeless, and generic. That this hallucination is necessary and deliberate is evident in the way "beauty" so directly contradicts women's real situation.”