To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

Being able to experience and live the differences with sound judgement offers a chance to opt for what is right for one.

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed. His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!

Helen Sustained many falls throughout her life. But as you can see, she steps right up and keeps on going. Falling to her is as natural as sneezing to us

Do not just look, but you should also observe.

I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

It had to go in, but it didn't.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.