Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.

Every child needs a champion.

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.

God begins to paint the clouds in the eastern sky when the mountains butterflies come flying home

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

Sorry, I'm not much of a cook.

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.