“Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. ...” — Ivy Compton-Burnett Quote

“Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.”

“People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.”

“There is more difference within the sexes than between them.”

“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”

“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.”

“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”