I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.