To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
An idea is salvation by imagination.