The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed. . . They're all inside me somewhere.
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.
Shake the hand that feeds you.
One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean, we subsidize high fructose corn syrup. We subsidize hydrogenated corn oil. We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize four crops that are the building blocks of fast food. And you also have to work on access. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health.
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.
Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.
We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.
It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.