Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

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.

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.

Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging

All His glory and beauty come from within and there He delights to dwell His visits there are frequent His conversation sweet His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Ive been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

I think we just have to find consistency and go from there.

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.