It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.