Quote of the day
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Julia Kristeva
Born: June 24, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor at the University Paris Diderot.
Known for:
- Powers of Horror (1982)
- Revolution in Poetic Language (1974)
- The Kristeva reader (1986)
- Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989)








