The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

I'm cautious about a lot of words

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.