We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.

Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.

Not every book is for every reader.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man...

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

I am not what you see and hear.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.