I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Everyone has a home but me.

You are my sunshine on a dark dreary day.

It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.

The fox often offers the duck its pond.

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.