A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. Not only because it can always be added to, but b… - Susan Sontag

Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society's double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women and then obscenely into old women, they can become women much earlier — and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.

El tiempo termina por elevar casi todas las fotografías, aun las más inexpertas, a la altura del arte.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all