"Porches are America's lost rooms."
"Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."
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Source: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company
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