There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own lives, but mostly feminism has had an impact among privileged women in the advanced Western countries. For the most part, it hasn't begun to touch the lives of poor and working women in the Third World, and that distresses me.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Intelligence forbids tears.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.