When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with.

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.