There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)

He’d done it like he did everything else—with passion and total disregard for how much it might embarrass her.

The soul actually demands as much attention as the body . . . the soul was made for God, and without God it is restless and in secret torment.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

In how many minds should I go crazy? Whom should I ask?

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.