Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.
If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
I am Woman, here me roar. . . of is that my vacuum cleaner?
Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.
Charge hell with a bucket of water.
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself. '
We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.
It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.