There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.