The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.