This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do."

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.