I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Our goal should be to achieve joy

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."

The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.

that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.

I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?