Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

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

We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new technologies, we need the engineers to create the networks, we need every human being to be aware of how precious water is and save it. Everybody has to be involved in a very firm and assertive way.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction