Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

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.

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.

When I was 13 years old, my mom had me start getting facials in my hometown of Los Angeles.

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.

We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.