I would say that there are certain glittering generalities that can be — Cass Elliot

"I think I would like to be a Senator or something in twenty years. I dont think I really know enough yet. Im just 30 now and I wouldnt even be eligible to run for office for another five years. But I have a lot of feelings about things. I know the way I would like to see things for this country and in my travels, when I talk to people, everybody wants pretty much the same thing: peace, enough jobs, no poverty and good education. And Ive learned a lot. Its funny. So many people in show business go into politics, and I used to say "What the heck do they know about it?" But when you travel around, you really do get to feel — not to be cliche — the pulse of the country and what people want. Im concerned and its not good to be unconcerned and just sit there."

"Having the baby changed my life a lot. I dont want to go on the road, you see. Its actually a matter of economics, much like the Vietnamese war, I guess. I didnt want to go on the road and I wanted to stay home with my baby. I guess I could go to Kansas and be a waitress and support my child that way. But Id rather live comfortable and I wanted to do more creative work. I didnt just want to be part of a group. I wanted to be able to do television, and a movie if it came up, to sort of diversify myself, to extend myself. Within the framework of a group, that freedom is not possible."

"I hated it. Everybodyd say, "Hey, mama, whats happening?" Then came the Mamas and Papas and I was stuck with it. And now people call me Mama Cass because of the baby. So I dont know whether Im gonna be able to really get away from it."

"I say, "Look, Im here now. There must be a reason Im here." If thats fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if were falling in the ocean, were falling into the ocean."

"Ive heard that story about kids are high naturally, but Ive seen kids that arent high, kids whove had the high taken out of them."

"I dont think its so important who you vote for — you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because its our way and its the best way."

"As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts."

"As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics—the model of all neo-positivistic thinking—lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.’ Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. … Reason … becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced."

"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!"

"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"