Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.

The biggest and loveliest miracle of today is you yourself!

Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.

Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.

Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.

The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.