A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn.

Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.

People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now

I think a good thing to always remember is to just keep your head on straight and don't lose your feet.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.