It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. – Henri Frederic Amiel
“These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than “”able-bodied”” folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.” – Daniel H. Wilson
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. – Marya Mannes
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. – Luis Barragan
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. Theres been an extraordinary advance. – Clifford Geertz