Quotes about Perception

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.

When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").

Our brains are organized by narrative and image.