This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

he wished for freedom and heaven was granted to him".

The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.

The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.