The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

If you went to the headwaters of most rivers of the United States, you'd have a wonderful naturalistic hike or trek, but you wouldn't find a shrine there. At the headwaters of the rivers of India, they are pilgrimage places.

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel tradition. I became fascinated with the religious lives of others who seemed also to be very religious, yet in ways that were quite different from my own. That fascination led to relationships, in India and elsewhere, with families of Hindus, of Muslims, of Sikhs, and a lot of study.

The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.

Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.