Vicki Cheney

“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
― May Sarton

“The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable”
― May Sarton

“Don't deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”
― May Sarton

“Machines do things very quickly and outside the natural rhythm of life, and we are indignant if a car doesn’t start at the first try. So the few things that we still do, such as cooking (though there are TV dinners!), knitting, gardening, anything at all that cannot be hurried, have a very particular value.”
― May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude