The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

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.

I will never give up, just push harder because the thought of quitting if far worse than the temporary pain I'm feeling now.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.

I just hope to make a difference.

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.