"Brooklyn born, Bronx bred… I felt like the dreamer/day tripper of the neighborhood with a vivid imagination and a longing to transcend the mundane through my love of the arts. My mother inspired me a lot. I can remember growing up hearing her voice in the background on the phone urging others to stop putting up with abuse and to stand up for themselves in order to better their lot in life. She was always helping people – mostly other women – liberate themselves from oppressive relationships whether it was at home or work."

"When you stop just existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with wonder and …"

"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escap…"

"Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets …"

"Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the materia…"

"The plans and schemes of tyrants are broken by many things. They shatter against cliffs of heroic struggle.…"

"The people who went to Eton can't run this country. They have done it. They have tried to do it. This littl…"