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.

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.

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.

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.

In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated.

Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale

Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Force is always beside the point when sublety will serve.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.