Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.