For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

You will be amazed to see how just one moment of truth has the potential to simplify your struggles!

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

The eye tells what the tongue would hide.

The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

He [Donald Trump] is the one who got him [Barack Obama] to finally produce the birth certificate. Hillary Clinton's campaign first raised this issue. He picked this up from Hillary Clinton.

being open isn't the same as being weak.

My son. He makes my heart grow bigger and bigger each day. There is nothing I love more than being his mommy.