The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Flying back from New York the flight attendant said 'God I wished you were here yesterday we had a stroke on the plane. I said if I have a stroke on a plane I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia. Home is where you eat sleep read watch television and ignore your parents. It is not where you go to the ballet and then attend a heated panel discussion about it afterwards.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

In addition I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.