The model for our early bankruptcy laws was Deuteronomy, the idea that, under certain circumstances - in Deuteronomy, it is simply the passage of seven years' time - people are released from debt, simply because they are released from debt. No more debt. You start over again. This has been a very powerful model in this country. It's being destroyed now. People talk about how much new employment, new wealth, and so on are continuously generated in this country.
Marilynne RobinsonIt's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
Marilynne RobinsonWe are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
Marilynne RobinsonIt is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.
Marilynne Robinson