If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

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.

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

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.