Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.