On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka “nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Joycelyn Elders

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