"Discourse about motherhood is chillingly narrow-minded. It's a tool the patriarchy uses, of course. So people complain about their kids or they complain about the pain of birth or they make motherhood kitschy, Mother's Day-y."

“It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.”

Source : Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, September 29, 2004.

“If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.”

Source : Dorothee Sölle (1984). “The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity”, p.33, Westminster John Knox Press

“It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.”

“Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!”

Source : "Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki says the anime industry’s problem is that it’s full of anime fans" by Casey Baseel, soranews24.com. January 30, 2014.

“I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.”

“Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.”

“Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice and occasion, which once being passed Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?”

“I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!”