I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.
There is always the need to carry on.
There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.
You have to stand up for some things in this world.
Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.
Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant. '
Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.
The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.