"We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws."

“The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.”

Source : Carol P. Christ (2015). “Diving Deep & Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest”, p.33, Beacon Press

“Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.”

“Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.”

“What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.”

“Public radio has always been so powerless.”

“Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.”

“I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.”

“The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.”