There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

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

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.