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.

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

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

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.

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Each day a day goes by.

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.