You know how they say a man's house is his castle? I think for a woman, it's her body. I feel so strongly about a woman's right to choose. This is my Zionism. It's not a "right" any more than it's a right to breathe, to take in oxygen.

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.