I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.