The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources. Doing better with less means doing it more together.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

If you're gonna lob something, lob love.

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that