Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.