“My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.”
“The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
“It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.”
“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”