A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more than childbearing, is the pivot of w… - Shulamith Firestone

An artist can never know in advance just how his vision might be articulated in reality.

Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.

I believe Freud was talking about something real, though perhaps his ideas, taken literally, lead to absurdity – for his genius was poetic rather than scientific; his ideas are more valuable as metaphors than as literal truths.