“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
“For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.”
“History indicates that wolf control is sometimes poor biology, often poor economics, and almost always poor public relations.”
“A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.”
“Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.”
“It’s not the art, it’s the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it’s organic; it’s relational.”