‏Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.

Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)

The future is the past in preparation.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?