Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

I think that women often can connect at a heart to heart level.

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it's the same with the Koran.

I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.

Nostalgia was never what it used to be.

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

More than anything, for me, is how people really still do care about you.

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

They recognize me. Of course they recognize me. My face is uncovered and I'm standing here outside of District 12 pointing an arrow at them. Who else would I be?

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.