We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.