We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.
No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.
the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.
Whatever you want to do,do it now.
Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.
The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."
If you really want to be lonely, get married.
All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future
So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.