Quotes about Perception

Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it. Even as a child, I noticed that Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz spent her entire time trying to get back home to Kansas, and Alice in Wonderland dreamed her long adventure, then woke up just in time for tea.

A writer's greatest reward is naming something unnamed that many people are feeling. A writer's greatest punishment is being misunderstood. The same words can do both.

That's why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.

Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

It is said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.

one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and you think it's a pig, it's a pig.

Pound for pound, she was stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This vertical history feels more intimate and sensory than written history. It's been reaching out all along, I just wasn't paying attention.

When God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly.