I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.

No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.

We are formed by what we desire

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.