Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Vivienne Westwood

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Simone Weil

Resistance is common to the unusual.

Toba Beta

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

Source Unknown

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

Paul Farmer

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Noam Chomsky

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

Charles Trevelyan

It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look at their idea of what's normal. Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to society. It's unimaginable! No question about what you do with your orgasms. No question about the quality of your feelings and thoughts and perceptions. And then what about the society you're supposed to be adjusted to? Is it a mad society or a sane one? And even if it's pretty sane, is it right that anybody should be completely adjusted to it?

Aldous Huxley

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Alan King

I want always to be positive.

Gianni Versace

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Tertullian