If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.