[...]as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Always love or money. And it can’t be love, because love makes you crazy, and this guy isn’t crazy.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Ruth Benedict

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