The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.

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.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.