“But until my Journal of Psychoanalytical Anthropology began to be published and until my book The Emotional Life of Nations came out, few realized how much anthropologists distorted mothering in their tribes.”

“I didn't listen to her because she was my mother & wouldn't know anything until I was much older.”

“My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.”

“Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.”

“I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.”

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

“People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.”

“She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.”

“All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.”

“I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!”