One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Christina Thürmer-Rohr is a feminist philosopher and social scientist, and is a Professor Emeritus at Technische Universität Berlin. She has been largely collected by libraries worldwide.