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“Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted.”
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“I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.”
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“I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...”
Source : "Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants". Book by Susan A. Ambrose, Barbara B. Lazarus and Indira Nair, 1997.
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“I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.”
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“Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.”
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“Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.”
Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
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“I defy anyone now to tell me about patriotism and what America stands for, while we've elected a man who ran on everything that's anathema to what people say that America stands for.”
Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
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“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
