I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.

I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.

Love and peace are not just words, they are a way of life. And in an honest living, love will always conquer.

You must continue to believe with all your heart. Sometimes belief is all if takes to make something real.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.

Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.