For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

I really do not understand the members of my generation.