Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. The function of art is to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. How wrong it is for women to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than set out to create it herself.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. When one is pretending the entire body revolts. One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my husband. For years politicians have promised the moon.