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" If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. "

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" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "

" People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. "

" When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb. "

" I don't generally read reviews. "

" I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. "

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" It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. "

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" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "

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" I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. "

" I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months. "

" I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. "

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" Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. "

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" It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting. "

" This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. "

" It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. "

" You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. "

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" Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. "

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" I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' "

" I never talk about my next project. "