You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people.… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know. — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think? — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
“I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.” — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless,… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
“Wir können, was wir sehen, noch nicht glauben. Was wir schon glauben, nicht aussprechen.” — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
