“Be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf—seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life. Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving,...

“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn’t have to be plugged...

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” –Anne Bradstreet, “Meditations Divine and Moral,” The Works of Anne Bradstreet – Anne Bradstreet...

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world, and you have to do it all the time.” —Angela Davis during a lecture at Southern Illinois University – Angela Davis is a lifelong activist icon for many movements, from feminism...

“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” —Toni Morrison, in an...

“Change requires intent and effort. It really is that simple.” —Roxane Gay, “Beyond the Measure of Men,” Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay is an essayist, writer, editor, public speaker, and professor. Gay has made a name for herself for her...