The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

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.