"We see only what we have names for."

-- Garrett Hardin

“I took a long period off to be a mom.”

Source : "'I've always had a sense of the unworthiness of myself'". Interview With Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.
“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
“I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.”
“The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner).”

Source : "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.
“Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.”
“I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.”
“I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.”
“We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.”

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