The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.

I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible