Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Benjamin Franklin

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Betty Friedan

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.

Gloria Steinem

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Ferris Bueller

Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

from the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

Walt Whitman

Here is the test of wisdom,
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it

to another not having it,
Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof,

is its own proof,
Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things,

and the excellence of things;
Something there is in the float of the sight of things

that provokes it out of the soul.

from "Leaves of Grass"

Wendell Berry

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.