Edith

“Why does everybody think I'm so wild? I'm not wild. I happen to stumble onto wildness. It gets in my path.”
― Cookie Mueller, Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller

“Sexual acts are not sacred actions. But the perception of the dishonour done to the body in treating them as the casual satisfaction of desire is certainly a mystical perception. I don't mean, in calling it a mystical perception, that it's out of the ordinary. It's as ordinary as the feeling for the respect due to a man's dead body: the knowledge that a dead body isn't something to be put out for the collectors of refuse to pick up. This, too, is mystical; though it's as common as humanity.”
― G.E.M. Anscombe, Contraception and chastity

“You certainly can be allergic to milk, and probably have been all your life. Descendants of people from countries who herded dairy animals and lived on a dairy diet are usually tolerant to milk. Their intestines contain the enzyme lactase that breaks down milk sugar or lactose. Now those whose ancestors never used milk are usually intolerant.”
― Cookie Mueller, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories

“A man’s conscience may tell him to do the vilest things.”
― Elizabeth Anscombe