There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.
As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.
Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.
We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.
Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
You can't look at the Noah story and not see some kind of environmental connection. The Creator wants to start over. He wants creation to be given a shot at survival, and the true enemy is the wickedness of men.
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.