Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.