The soul is awakened through service.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.