If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.