Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

"I accept your condemnation," I said.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.