"Treat your life like something to be sculpted."

-- Larry Niven

“all skinny guys with beards are jerks”
“I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace”
“The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much more important in the world than they actually are. It has fostered illusions of grandeur in every man that are unwarranted. If you can think as a man that everything great in the world and its civilization was created by men, then naturally you have to look down on women. And naturally, you have to have different aspirations for your sons and for your daughters.”

Source : "Women and History Part I: The Creation of Patriarchy with Gerda Lerner". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.
“Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.”
“When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.”
“I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.”
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.373, Vintage
“I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.”

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