All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

Merely being human is morally significant.

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

I would much rather be hated for who I am, then loved for something that I am not.

That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

Even if we don't agree, we should agree to work together.

Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.