I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself