I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

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.

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.

The night and the streets were ours and the future lay sparkling ahead.And we thought we would know each other forever.

I believe our country is strong enough to be criticized.

Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

Whatever your weakness, there’s a hellion to exploit it.

Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.