If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.