If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.