“We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing”

“I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.”

“Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walk...”

“As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.”

“We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.”

“We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.”

“How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.”

“... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them ...”

“To regret ones own experiences is to arrest ones own development. To deny ones own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of ones own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”