To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Women have been taught that for us the earth is flat and that if we venture out we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith my feminist faith that we will not.

So nevertheless what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on walking towards utopia which may not exist on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

We cannot know the whole truth which belongs to God alone but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors truth will retaliate with ugliness poverty and disease.