I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.