“Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you.”

“We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.”

“We do not believe in murder! We believe in convenience in our careers, in our cuisine, in our kills, and in our definitions.”

“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.”

“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”

“Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.”

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

“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...”