“The most out-there thing Im saying is, Dont have babies. Dont get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.”

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”

“Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.”

“Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.”

“I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.”

“To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.”