Ellen Gilchrist Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. February 20, 1935
Birthday: February 20
The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.
source: Ellen Gilchrist (2008). “A Dangerous Age: A Novel”, p.11, Algonquin Books
topic: Wise, Baby, Race, Cerebral
