I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.
Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.
It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty
I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.
I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.
I love my girlfriend, don't get me wrong. I truly love this woman, but I have the ability to have sex without any emotional involvement. It's a gift.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.