Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

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.

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.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I sometimes say to people, "I am a window frame - no more. The window frame is not that important. What is important is the light that comes through the window.

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.