My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.

I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.