No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

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.

What you resist, persists....Let go and your life will flow.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.

I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

... my mind lay limp in an empty world.