Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'