A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.