I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.