"My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them."

“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.”

“Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.”

Source : 1966 'Office Friendships'.

“How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered”

“I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.”

“Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

“Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.”

Source : Song: Fear Not of Man

“There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.”

“Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”