People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

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.

Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.