“I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.” — Martha Nussbaum

My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

I wouldn't express anything without being very thoughtful.

People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.