Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us