The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

Women's work is always toward wholeness.

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.