Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.