If One Is Going To Change Things,

We Expect Definitions To Tell Us Not Only What Is, But What To Do About It; To Show Us How The World Fits Together And How Its Different Parts Connect And Work. ... A Label Is The First Step Toward Action.

We Are In A Double Bind. We Are Expected To Feel Inferior Not Only As Women, But Because We Are Old.

Few Cultures Have Not Produced The Idea That In Some Past Era The World Ran Better Than It Does Now.

I Admire People Who Are Suited To The Contemplative Life. They Can Sit Inside Themselves Like Honey In A Jar And Just Be. It's Wonderful To Have Someone Like That Around, You Always Feel You Can Count On Them. You Can Go Away And Come Back, You Can Change Your Mind And Your Hairdo And Your Politics, And When You Get Through Doing All These Upsetting Things, You Look Around And There They Are, Just The Way They Were, Just Being.

The Surprise Of Animals... In And Out, Cats And Dogs And A Milk Goat And Chickens And Guinea Hens, All Taken For Granted, As If Man Was Intended To Live On Terms Of Friendly Intercourse With The Rest Of Creation Instead Of Huddling In Isolation On The Fourteenth Floor Of An Apartment House In A City Where Animals Occurred Behind Bars In The Zoo.