Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean - that was the reason the law came into effect.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.