That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

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.

Only and only handwork can get you to the front benches, where you get noticed by the God.

Self-esteem isn't everything

No matter how different we are on the outside, the love we have within us is the same.

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

I'm an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.

I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.

Britain needs to change its immigration system - and the only way to do that is to vote Leave.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America.

I'm a huge seafood lover; I could cook it everyday.