Money is the mother's milk of politics.

We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now.""I was going to watch Project Runway.

Are we making a bomb?" "This is a trust exercise, like in drama, " she says. "Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?

But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.