'Women writing in the "I" fight the specter of the diary, which saps their authority and saddles them with the obligation to be both a good author and a good subject.'

'But now I say nothing. I'm not an electrician anymore.'

'… in the journals, the effort of it appears again and again…'

'… the imperatives of conception might make it necessary to improvise at great length.'

'Robots in human form'

'What a park can become, or how a street behaves, are always open questions rarely asked outside or extreme circumstances.'

'By contrast, a woman’s decision to detach herself from conventional society always requires justification.'

'The absolute need to read with a pen in one's hand'

Kant begins the B version of the first Critique by using someone else's words to ask that his own words be considered 'not an opinion, but a work', quoting Francis Bacon to say de nobis ipsis silemus—about myself I am silent.

Is there a better expression of philosophy's wish for purity?