As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Everyone has a home but me.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

It just sucks when you’ve given so much and you realize it still wasn't good enough for someone.

Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.