Ina May Gaskin Quotes

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

Ina May Gaskin

Hero
Chicken

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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

B. F. Skinner
- People
- Work
- Great
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Mao Zedong
- History
- Struggle
- Years
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

Francesca Lia Block
- Writing
- Magic
- Changed
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Irving Layton
- You
- Clever
- Convince
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

Dan Rather
- Never
- Air
- Before
It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.

Olivia Wilde
- Good
- Parents
- Interesting