“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in lif...” — Iris Murdoch Quote

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.