“I need to do it for me and you need to do it for you- because we are reason enough all on our own.”

The smallest act of kindness can spread the greatest gift of hope.

I was too busy trying enough for the both of us to realize how much I shouldn’t be.

I can’t change the whole world but I can change my world.

I won’t be waiting around to see where you stand. I can stand on my own.

I would rather be known and disliked than never truly known at all.

Words aren’t enough but they are all I have to hold on to right now to keep from falling and near hitting bottom.

I am a mother because my hearts live outside my body.

How can something drain and fill me all at once.

The expectation of happiness can induce quite the opposite.

No one is given time to spend on what they love, they take it.

It’s not my responsibility to fit into who you think I am. That’s not how this works.

You believe in magic and so do I, because I believe in you.

Those who fight the hardest for change are the ones who most believe its possible.

You can’t be a part of the solution, if you refuse to acknowledge you are part of the problem.

Instead of asking yourself why you care so much, ask everyone else why they don’t.

You don’t need to reach the most people, you just need to reach the right people.

My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.

My position on that has been misrepresented again and again and again in the media.

For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I’ve never looked back on it with anything but joy.

The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.

Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer.

I don’t want to govern the Palestinians. I don’t want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible.