Write what will stop your breath if you don’t 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.

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 only recognizable feature of hope is action.

God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

Our life is our own creation.

As a matter of fact, it's in our interests that we help reformers across the Middle East achieve their objectives. This is the fundamental challenge of the 21st century.

If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.