“Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.”

There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

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.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.

God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That’s precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

What you believe, you receive.

If you believe in the project, you have to support it.

It is brave to believe in tomorrow.