To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.
There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.
How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.
Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got a job at the University of Minnesota, which was very fortunate because it was a part-time job and that gave us a great deal of time in our studio to work together and to make the pots we wanted to make.
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.