Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.