language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

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.

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.