We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.

Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.