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.

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.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.

There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

Browseability is the key online.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich

Poetry is language in orbit.