You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.