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.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.