New England Primer Quote

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essen...

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and y...

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions an...

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot...