The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

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 a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.

Variety in your diet is health in your life.

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.

There is always stardust in my eyes when I look at you, my love.

The ‘do nothing everything will be all right’ default plan is determined by the IRS and government.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.