“Every amount of wasted time, every poor choice, every mistake, every single thing that happened to me went into making me understand who I am and what I am. That’s why I came back to singing again. It was really about moving forward.”

Baby Jane Dexter, 1946-2019, singer

“Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.”

Anais Nin

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“It is not ‘only’ food, I said heatedly. There’s meaning hidden underneath each dish.”

“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”

James Thurber, book quote from “Further fables for our time”, 1978

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.”