Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.