We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.

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.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.

I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

If you think you know it all, you are not listening.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be