I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

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.