A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos