"“People thought I was mad being a builder. There was terrible prejudice.”"

"“How often do we get the position where a woman in a good job, commanding a good salary, has to be twice as good as a…"

"“We have to build a smaller house with all the amenities of the better houses before the war to give your wives the c…"

"a world in which the hospital industrial complex makes “obsolete” different bodies"

"“I always think that if I let go and go into the large outer space, I won’t find my way back. It’s just fear of the u…"

"Why would anyone write about illness except the ill? And at first, too, the experience is too close for the ill perso…"

"It’s curious that the Latin root of the Middle English word for tradition, tradere, means not only to “impart” and “g…"

"I was always interested in Egyptian mummies […] but later on, during the Vietnam War, when I saw all these bodies in …"

"Everything I’ve done is a statement on the, as they say, ‘human condition."

"I like wrapped things like Egyptian mummies, American burial costumes, and other archaeological finds."