“The world needs more beautiful things.”

“Theres nothing abnormal about loneliness.”

“Sometimes being poor means having to choose between your principles and your survival.”

“Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. Its been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was.”

“There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.”

“It’s not right that some people have so much and others have so little.”

“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep t...”

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”

“Men can be relentless," she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.”

“[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minu...”

“Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to p...”

“A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.”