“Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known”
“The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.”
“Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.”
“The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.”
“Women know intuitively when they are being devalued. (121)”
“The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.”