Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

For a day, just for one day, Talk about that which disturbs no oneAnd bring some peace into yourBeautiful eyes.

You lose yourself in books. You find your self there too.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies.

We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea."

You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

We need to believe Donald Trump when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.