It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.

For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.