“(At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adultHumans are sentient, young Human children are not. I admit to acertain fondness for this conclusion; if childen aren't nonsentient,they're certainly psychopathic)”

“Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.”

“At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation do not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient”

“Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it. ”

“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.”

“All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property”