All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.