"Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives."

“I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.”

“I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.”

“I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. Theyre in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!”

“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.”

“I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.”

“The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.”

Source : Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

“America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom.”

“The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.”