Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.
All writing is a process of elimination.
It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.
No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe.
Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.
when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.
There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.
Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.