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    St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
    Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)

    The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
    —Mother Teresa (b. 1910)

    No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
    José Bergamín (1895–1983)