I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

Love is the jewel of mankind.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.