I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.