A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

Surviving means being born over and over.