to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.