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Love Takes Off The Masks That We Fear We Cannot Live Without And Know We Cannot Live Within. I Use The Word "love" Here Not Merely In The Personal Sense But As A State Of Being, Or A State Of Grace - Not In The Infantile American Sense Of Being Made Happy But In The Tough And Universal Sense Of Quest And Daring And Growth.

The Occurrence Of An Event Is Not The Same Thing As Knowing What It Is That One Has Lived Through.

Precisely At The Point When You Begin To Develop A Conscience You Must Find Yourself At War With Your Society.

Women Manage, Quite Brilliantly, On The Whole, And To Stunning And Unforeseeable Effect, To Survive And Surmount Being Defined By Others. They Dismiss The Definition, However Dangerous Or Wounding It May Be-- Or Even, Sometimes, Find A Way To Utilize It.

A Liberal: Someone Who Thinks He Knows More About Your Experience Than You Do.