"It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman"

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"