Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.