“I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.”
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.