I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.