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.

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

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.

The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.

Be strong and courageous, along unfamiliar paths, God will guide you.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going.