“We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.”

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

You always have a choice. It’s just that some people make the wrong one.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.

You just have to make a choice to just refuse to be involved with things that could get you in trouble.

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.