Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.