“This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.”

“Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.”

“Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.”

“Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages.”

“Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.”

“Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.”