" This ideal thus submits to what Derrida calls the metaphysics of presence, which seels to collapse the temporal difference inherent in language and experience into a totalist that can be comprehended in one view. This ideal of community denies the ontological difference within and between subjects"

" Sharing, moreover, is fragile. At the next moment the other person may understand my words differently from the way I mean them, or carry my actions to consequences I do not intend. "

" Because the subject is not a unity, it cannot be present to itself, know itself. I do not always know what I mean, need, want, desire, because meanings, needs, and desires do not arise from an origin in some transparent ego. Often I express my desire in gesture or tone of voice, without meaning to do so. "
- "City Life and Difference", Iris Young