Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.