All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.